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Chairman of Joint Chiefs Torches Trump for War Crimes!!!

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown torching Trump in public for his war crimes and disastrous handling of the war. Remember to subscri...

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The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CQ Brown, Jr., is calling out Donald Trump and Pete Heggsip publicly. Now, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, CQ Brown was fired by Donald Trump and Heggsip back in 2025. And he's now breaking his silence.

Now, this comes at the same time. That Donald Trump and Heggsip fired the Army Chief of Staff. Randy George this past week. During Donald Trump's catastrophic war in Iran, getting rid of yet another member of the Joint Chiefs

and the number one officer in the United States Army, a beloved individual as was CQ Brown. Well, CQ Brown, he was speaking in Harvard

and very powerful words that you're probably not going

to see anywhere else other than here on the Midas Touch Network. And he didn't hold back. Remember the video I made yesterday. How finally we saw the Joint Chiefs showing public descent against Donald Trump, Heggsip and the despicable criminal lawless regime.

Now, of course, these former top military generals and admirals, they're not going to use that language that I just use. But in their own way, they went there. So let me show you right here the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CQ Brown.

Here he is basically saying that the United States, that Trump and Heggsip, with their leadership, has frankly been showing such a degree of humorous and arrogance. And there should have been more planning regarding this war in Iran. And he says it's kind of shocking when you hear the amount of aircraft

and military equipment that's already been destroyed by Iran in the various military bases that American has in the Middle East, as well as the American aircraft flying over Iran. Here, play this clip. We're inviting the right capability for our warfighter,

both on the offensive and defensive, and our casual numbers could match the equivalent of war war two or re-enhanced. Which is not something we've had to deal with. Mostly throughout my career. And so we can't walk in with a bunch of humorous of,

this won't happen to us. Well, we just saw it happen with 13 service members that have been killed 350 or so that have been injured and not to mention number aircraft that have been lost, which, you know,

That's not something we haven't lost a lot of aircraft,

particularly like an AWAC sitting on a ramp.

And those are the kinds of things that should shock us a bit

into reality that war and going into a conflict is not something that we, you know, it's just take lightly or you get to take it seriously because you're putting men and women's lives at risk. And I'll just tell you personally, you know, if every loss and impacts me,

because I know someone's going to show up in their dressing or form or knock on somebody's door to tell them, you know, your son, your daughter, your husband or wife, it's no longer with us. And that just disrupts a family. And that, that was heavily on me.

Yeah, thank you, Chairman. All right. And then more over here from the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Seek, you Brown, Jr. Here he is talking about how inappropriate what it was

when Pete Higgsith gave a pass to that Apache, a helicopter pilot who was flying the plane by Kid Rock and just the awful conduct and behavior, and the lack of leadership, frankly, that exists at the highest levels

and how that erodes confidence at all of the other levels. Here play this clip.

And there were certain things that would never have even crossed our minds

that over the past couple of days I've seen that they're making nervous for the institution. This sounds funny, but an army helicopter doing an overflight of Kid Rock, that's like super unprofessional. The Secretary Defense deciding there's going to be no accountability

for that when the uniform military says that they'll be held accountable is crazy. The Secretary Defense pulling members off a one-star promotion list for reasons that are almost certainly to do with their identity is crazy.

That's not something that would have happened before. So again, Chairman, you're too professional in common on news because that's not your role. But you can just talk about if you're the chairman and you're thinking about civilian political pointy leadership,

what role do they have to build that trust and the institution?

Well, part of this, you think about the role of a military member of the senior level, particularly as a chairman of your providing advice. And part of that is being able to provide the advice of how you would handle those types of situations.

And I'll just tell you just like you. I'm concerned. I don't have all the facts on some of these, but having had to deal with situations of unauthorized flybys as a commander.

Having set on promotion boards review results from promotion boards, I know they're fair based on merit. And if what I'm hearing is being reported as true, it is very concerning because it does start to get ordered in discipline and ensuring that people that are

all giving it fair opportunity. No one wants to be advanced or disadvantaged based on their background. They just want to have opportunity to compete. And once you've gone through a promotion board and having set on promotion boards,

they said, for my experience, they've been fair. Footnote for all of you, not following the news. So now in case you were wondering this was an interview, a discussion that was taking place at Harvard, the moderator right there is a former chief of staff

to defense secretary in the prior administration, more from the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs here. This is some good stuff, but he's calling it out like this. Next, what they talk about is how Trump and Heggseth and the entire Trump regime, massacre the little girl

elementary school. And here, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs

CQ Brown is talking about ultimately accountability.

Who should be held accountable in the United States?

And he's saying people should be held accountable. They're still a chain of command. And anybody who gave that order to massacre the elementary school, killing all of those little girls. And that was one of many massacres

that the Trump regime has engaged in in Iran. And there was that prior massacre involving a gym. As well, watch what the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs says here, let's play this clip. I'm sure most of you all know the United States

made horrible mistake and hit an Iranian girl's school during the first wave of the tax. They killed about 175 people, most of them were young women who were under the age of 13. And the initial explanation that came out

was mixed to the president said, the Iranians did it.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs

said the advanced AI model did it. The military, to their credit, said we made a mistake and there have been different explanations for that, too. So at least to the question, chairman is, when there's a targeting process like that,

or later down the road, if there is a more autonomous type weapon, and you're trying to figure out who should be accountable

in a situation like that, which has always been super

important to the US military. How did you thought about that? It's a really hard question. It is, but I still think there's a commander for someone that signs off on, whether it's an analyst,

that signs off, and this is a good trick. In this example, that you just talked about the school, when things get recharacterized or you have bad intel or laid intel, I mean, the same thing happened with the allied force for the struck egg building

that we thought we didn't know was a Chinese embassy. - Yeah, right. - And you could slob it, you could slob it. You can make those kinds of mistakes based on the data you have. But the big picture here is, you know,

I'd say the commander's ultimately responsible, but there may be somebody down at a lower level that should be checking, he's thinking that,

that's why you want to have a human aloof

that can cross check it against, it doesn't even look right. This makes sense based on our experience, which is why I think it's still important that we understand some of the basic fundamentals, so we don't just kick back

and let AI do it all and go, it was AI's fault. And then, you know, who is it the person to ask the prop, is the developer of the AI, is it, you know, you could go down a, you know, several different lawsuits to figure out

who would ultimately be responsible, right? The issue is we gotta figure out how to, in a conflict, how do you continue to keep moving forward and making sure we're being effective, but also doing things in line with the law of on conflict?

- Yeah, great, thank you.

- Now, this is a powerful moment, and you see why

this guy, CQ Brown, Jr., rose through the ranks, it should be noted that Donald Trump appointed him to be the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 2020, and then he served in that position to 2023, and he was basically unanimously voted in

by the United States Senate, back in 2020. He was Trump's pick in 2020 to be the Chief of Staff for the United States Air Force, and then Biden elevated him to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

And here he is over here again, talking about the importance of trust, and what trust means and building trust within the armed forces, getting the people of America to trust the military, let's play this clip.

- And the military right now, and your perspective on the way things are going with that. - If I could, one of the things that, when I became the chairman, I did a memo that was my expectations of the force,

it was a memo that came out the first,

you know, a took over on the, the first five October was a Sunday, that's when I took over, and so it was two October. And I had three expectations, and one of those was trust is the foundation

or a profession. You know, I was really focused on was, how do we build trust within our military? Now we take care of our service members and their families. It's the trust that we have,

as we work with our civilian leadership

in most important trust with the American population.

And it takes a lot of work. But I think it's important. And when you have a very divided nation, it makes it even more challenging. And as you look at, you know,

as you're talking, a lot of government institutions are coming down and trust. - Congress is 6% just saying, make you really worried, they're dragging us down. From a military perspective.

But I think, you know, as I, you know, work with service members, and the ones I still talk to, that's what they're focused on. It's probably even more challenging

in the current environment to work through a maintain that trust. I mean, the tough part here is that we have a smaller and smaller part of the population that actually knows somebody in military has a connection in military.

And unless you know about the military, the harder it is for you to have that trust. Or a small event can actually really erode that trust.

And so that's why I think it's really important

for our military, you know, staying engaged in the communities and how people have a chance to meet some of our service members and our families. 'Cause there are people just like you.

But they did something that most of our nation doesn't do

Is raise a right hand and take an oath

that is important to defend the Constitution.

And so I still have complete trust and confidence in our military. And as I have told some military members are still serving, life is not fair. No one said it's gonna be easy.

Anything that's worth no one takes effort. In maintaining trust and building trust to take effort and even more show today. - Thank you so much. This is part of that discussion as well.

And as is clearly aimed at headset using AI to replace humans making the ultimate decisions about the kill targets and where to shoot.

We've seen, I think, in this war already,

you know, although we'll gather more evidence of how it was that the Minob Elementary School and other site selections were taken

that it's perhaps AI was picking all of the locations

and there was no kind of further double checking the work of the AI or, you know, if that wasn't the case, there were, you know, those people who were involved, you know, in the chain of command. This is a very important part of this discussion

and it's clearly aimed at the reckless use, the disgusting and reckless use of AI by Trump and headset. Let's show you former chairman, a CQ Brown here, play this clip. - As you go through the charging process, for example.

No matter how many people you have, you still have to have, I believe, and a person, a human in the loop. Because what AI helps you to do is help, it helps to ride your options,

but you still have someone has to make a decision and use their judgment, 'cause AI does not have a judgment, okay?

And so that's an important aspect.

And there may be concern that AI is gonna give you

some bad information or hallucinate. Well, I work with people who've given you bad information. So I'm gonna hallucinate. Sometimes they're hallucinate, are you smoking something, we're not. So, I mean, so you can't just,

just because you have AI, just don't go, hey, AI's taking care of, we're gonna keep back. And, you know, because when you think about war and conflict, this is a human endeavor. And you put in humans at risk,

but you also have to have human attention there that is watching to make sure it's doing all the things it's supposed to do. And so you just can't outsource this whole thing to artificial intelligence.

Now, the other part, I would also highlight, just as we talk about artificial intelligence, there is this whole aspect. And I felt this way probably 20 years ago when cyber became big with the military.

And it was on every PowerPoint slide, like, cyber is gonna save the world. For all the things we're gonna do. And we've done the same thing with AI, to an extent.

Everybody's got AI and saying, hey, well, AI's gonna do what?

I mean, part of this is you get to figure out what is it you're trying to achieve in this AI to make it better or to just burn it up daylight and time and not producing what you need. You know, I really believe that the quality of the prompt

or the question you ask you, the duration you have, that helps you with AI, but if you, you know, garbage in garbage out, bad prompt, bad answer. And you just can't remember what that answer. And so, I mean, there's some real pluses

that AI and autonomy, but we still have to pay attention to it because, you know, we're responsible. And it can set the tone for an operational, or it can, you know, create an issue that you're gonna have to deal with as a human.

So you want to make sure you're paying attention to what is doing. And, you know, they're speaking in Harvard right here and one of the things that Hegg said did, and not just Harvard, but lots of colleges,

if Hegg said then Trump and the regime, the Trump regime viewed the conduct or like a college as being a quote, "woke college like Harvard" and, you know, lots of other schools. Then Hegg said has banned all military affiliations

with that college, so like Harvard and MIT. And there's so many schools where now our armed forces don't get to interact with students on these campuses. And, you know, one of the things in CQ Brown, he's ROTC, and, you know, he's discussing how,

how really dangerous this is and how so much of what Hegg said is doing, you know, he goes, I don't know all of the stuff he goes, but a lot of it's very dangerous here. Play this clip. - That all cooperation between the Department of Defense

and Harvard would be cut. We have usually between 20 and 25 active duty, Lieutenant Colonel's Colonel's who come here, this will be the last time they commonly spurred the next few years.

A bunch of active duty service members who are on the captains or majors who are students and then go back into the force, this will be the last year that they're here, those were here, it can finish. And then we're lucky we have a lot of vets.

You know, there've been chiefs that's after the army who were in these programs, a lot of very senior leaders. You don't have to cover common on Harvard in particular, but to me, the reason it was important

Is most Harvard students have not met someone in the military

until they have an interaction with these people, whether they're international students or, sorry to tell me, they're just like so progressive,

they've never been in that world.

Can you just talk a little bit more about, like, how do we get different parts of American society to either join the military, meet the military so that we can rebuild some of that trust and there's not such a stark divide?

- Well, well, I think one of the key things

of what I like kind of like you described the value of our service members coming to institutions like Harvard, not only for our service members, but also for the students at Harvard and faculty, because this may be the only military person

they have a chance to meet. - You know, I'm on faculty at Duke. We have this same conversation the value of sending military members to various of the institutions across the United States.

Because they'll get a perspective that they wouldn't get if they'd want to one of the war colleges. Because it's probably more groupthink at our war colleges than there is coming here because, as I sit in the class,

like co-teacher class with Dr. Peter Fever on civil relations. And as I listen to it, there's things that are being said

that you would never hear in a war college.

(laughing) But it's good because you have military members in that class that are hearing some things and it's challenging your assumptions. And so there's a real value

and it rhymes your perspective to be a critical thinker

and invariably you're gonna work with, if any one of these students goes into government in like the state department, you're gonna work with them. And there's some things that work with people

that don't think like you is probably, it's a important part of leadership. And we talked a little bit about that backstage. You know, part of leadership is working with people that sometimes can be difficult.

And how do you learn how to do that if you, everybody thinks like you,

you know, they never challenge your assumptions.

And I think there's some real value and in that opportunity to interact. The last thing I would say is you talked about kind of looking at the military. I'm a big believer.

Young people only aspire to be with they see or know about. You don't decide to grow up to be something you never heard of. It's not like you get a ping-pong ball that got a lot of machine and go.

I'm gonna be military. I mean, you've really at some point

someone's gonna talk to you and you decide

they're gonna major in whatever you're gonna major in. What career path you're gonna take. And so the key point is the value of having military members here is you get a chance to meet someone you're going

and I'm gonna thought about joining the military. What's it like? Just like you would do for any other career field. And that's the real value you have in this interaction that happens at these at the universities.

- Yes, thank you. - No, it also should be noted that in the past 24 hours, the email that was sent by Randy George after he was fired, that's the Army Chief of Staff. General, four-star General, top Army Officer,

Hexith fires him in the middle of the war and lots of people are saying that one of the main reasons is that Randy George was continuing to promote women and black people and that Hexith didn't like that. He didn't want them to be go through the promotion rank

and both this guy and the others there, we're basically saying no, Randy George and others, we're saying no, we're gonna promote people based on merit. So here's the email that's being sent or that this is Randy George's email.

Former Army Chief of Staff, he was on the joint chief, he was one of the members there being the top Army Officer. Here's his email, Army Leaders. I had the chance to speak with a few of you yesterday and wanted to follow up with a broader note of thanks

to all of you for your support and exceptional teamwork while I served as the CSA, the Chief of Staff of the Army. As my time in the Army ends, I reflect on the immeasurable pride being part of the Army team,

has been for me for these past 38 years. I enlisted in the Army right out of high school and always made the decision to stay another tour because of the selfless people I was blessed to serve alongside. It has been the greatest privilege to serve beside you

and lead soldiers in support of our country. I know you all continue to stay laser focused on the mission, continue innovating and relentlessly cut through the bureaucracy to get our war fighters what they need to win on the modern battlefield. Our soldiers are truly the best in the world.

They deserve tough training and courageous leaders of character. I have no doubt you will all continue to lead with courage, character and grit. Patty sends her gratitude as well. She's always been inspired by the strength of our Army families.

This will defend the our very truly yours, Randy.

You see what he says right there.

Our soldiers are truly the best in the world.

They deserve tough training and courageous leaders

of character and it's important. I want to emphasize that because to me, he was also hinting there. You get the code in language. That Pete Heggseth and Donald Trump lack the requisite character.

Someone in my view who also clearly lacks the requisite character. Maga extremist Laura Lumer, the Trump

Sikhafent and she was responsible for getting the

National Security Council Iran Director, Nate Swanson previously fired. And she got him fired before the Iran War.

And here's what Max Blumenthal says.

He goes, before Laura Lumer got someone who may or may not be Casem Solamani's niece deported. She got former NSC Iran Director, Nate Swanson fired. Swanson correctly warned that Iran would close the straight of her moves hammer US bases across the region

and turn the war into a quagmire.

And that's what happens when you lose the critical talent like that.

Like Randy George, like CQ. Like all of these top leaders.

I mean, basically the entire joint chiefs has been fired

by Donald Trump and his despicable regime. Well, anyway, I thought it was great to see the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, CQ Brown, Jr. standing up, really great to see it. Tell me what you think in the comments below. And I love that we could use this platform at the Midas Touch Network

to share with you such incredible courageous discussions.

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